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Formalizing Julia in Lean (and finding 400 bugs in Base)

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Miles Cranmer's project formalizes Julia's source code in Lean 4 and attempts to prove the docstring promises, using AI agents to write models and proofs. Differential testing against real Julia and reproducers guard against false claims.

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